Hormel Foods Donation Helps Fight Hunger in Little Rock

Skippy Foods, the local manufacturing facility owned by Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), announced Wednesday that it has donated $10,000 to the Arkansas Food Bank to fight hunger in the Little Rock community. Skippy Foods has donated funds to this organization since 2013.

“Our team is honored to join the Arkansas Food Bank to help support hunger relief in our area,” said Roger Vos, plant manager, Skippy Foods. “I would like to thank our employees, whose dedication and hard work make it possible to help those in need. On behalf of Hormel Foods, we are excited to help do our part in making a difference.”

This is the seventh consecutive year Hormel Foods has given funds to its U.S. manufacturing facilities to share with nonprofits in their respective communities to fight hunger. In 2016, Hormel Foods donated $350,000 to local hunger relief organizations in 35 U.S. communities where it had manufacturing facilities, bringing the program’s total contribution to local hunger relief efforts to more than $2 million thus far. Through this program as well as disaster relief efforts and other donations, Hormel Foods contributed $7.4 million in cash and product donations to help address hunger in fiscal 2016.